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Public Health England scientist denies new strain in deadly delta variant has emerged after 53,000-person festival

(NOTE: This article has been updated with a statement from Public Health England.)

A Public Health England scientist is pushing back on claims that a new variant has emerged in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom linked to festivals.

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'Don't be fooled': OAN tells Americans in Kabul to ignore terror warnings and 'get to the airport now'

OAN host Christina Bobb advised Americans over the weekend to ignore the U.S. government's warning about terrorist threats in Kabul.

The U.S. State Department has urged all Americans to leave the vicinity of the airport in Kabul due to ongoing terrorist threats. Last week, 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were killed in terrorist attacks near the airport.

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Stephen Miller screams at 'clinically insane' Joe Biden in Fox News interview about Afghan refugees

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday called President Joe Biden "clinically insane" for allowing Afghan refugees to live in the United States.

Miller yelled at the current commander-in-chief throughout a Fox News interview after host Maria Bartiromo asked him about "refugees" that are being brought to the United States from Afghanistan.

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Biden official fires back at CNN's Tapper over accusation Taliban was handed a 'kill list'

On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden's nationals security advisor engaged in a contentious back and forth with CNN's Jake Tapper over a report in Politico that the administration had given the Taliban alist of Americans and Afghan allies that was being used as a "kill list."

Pressed by Tapper, Jake Sullivan explained how the administration was doing the best they could evacuating everyone before finally saying the report of the list, "Is flat out not correct."

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Chris Wallace slams McConnell's desire for 'full-scale war' after he calls Afghanistan a 'complete success'

Fox News host Chris Wallace questioned Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about his desire to fight an endless war in Afghanistan.

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, McConnell argued that the Afghanistan war had been a "complete success" and that the U.S. could safely maintain an indefinite military presence in the country with just 2,500 troops.

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'Not what ending a war looks like': Biden vows new strikes in retaliation for Kabul blast

Even as he planned to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by August 31, President Joe Biden said Saturday that the drone strike that was launched Friday night in retaliation for an attack claimed by ISIS-K "was not the last."

"We will continue to hunt down any person involved in that heinous attack and make them pay," the president said in a statement Saturday afternoon. "Whenever anyone seeks to harm the United States or attack our troops, we will respond. That will never be in doubt."

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Biden had Reaper drone drop 'ninja bomb' on ISIS-K operatives in Afghanistan: report

The United States used a weapon known as "the flying Ginsu" or "ninja bomb" against suspected ISIS-K operatives in Afghanistan.

"The Pentagon used a special Hellfire missile that packs no explosives to strike Islamic State militants in Afghanistan on Saturday in retaliation for a suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport last week," The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing "two U.S. officials."

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Americans in Kabul 'should leave the airport area immediately': US embassy in Afghanistan

The United States embassy in Kabul is urging Americans to immediately leave the area around the airport in Kabul.

"Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of Kabul airport (HKIA), including the South (Airport Circle) gate, the new Ministry of the Interior, and the gate near the Panjshir Petrol station on the northwest side of the airport, should leave the airport area immediately," the embassy urged.

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'Extremely dangerous': Biden warns another Kabul airport bombing is 'likely'

The United States took aim at the Islamic State group in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two high-level targets in a drone strike over the devastating suicide bombing at Kabul airport, as President Joe Biden warned another attack on the frantic airlift was "highly likely".

A series of urgent terror warnings have rattled evacuation efforts overseen by US forces, who have been forced into closer security cooperation with the Taliban to prevent a repeat of Thursday's carnage at one of the facility's main access gates.

Scores of Afghan civilians were killed in the bombing claimed by the regional Islamic State-Khorasan group, along with 13 US troops -- several of them just 20 years old, the same length of time as US military operations in Afghanistan.

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Dems fear 'devastating consequences' in 2022 midterms after Biden's struggles in August: report

Democrats are fearing the political aftermath of a disastrous month for President Joe Biden, according to a new analysis published online Saturday by The Washington Post.

"President Biden is mired in the most devastating month of his tenure in office — struggling to contain a deadly crisis in Afghanistan, an unyielding pandemic and other setbacks that have sent waves of anger and worry through his party as his poll numbers decline," reporters Sean Sullivan, Tyler Pager, and Annie Linksey wrote.

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Josh Hawley’s call for Biden to resign trolled in key local newspaper

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is outraged that Joe Biden withdrew U.S. troops from Afghanistan as Hawley has long demanded.

Hawley's office has demonstrated his anger with a call for Biden to resign from office. But that message was not well received by the editorial board of The Kansas City Star.

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WATCH: CNN host pulled up short by ex-Navy SEAL for casting suspicion on rescued Afghan refugees

A former Navy SEAL who participated in a daring rescue of Afghan refugees earlier in the week under the name "Pineapple Express", cut off CNN host Michael Smerconish for questioning the loyalties of refugees who were extricated along with their families because they were U.S. allies during the occupation.

According to ABC, "Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it worked unofficially in tandem with the United States military and U.S. embassy to move people, sometimes one person at a time, or in pairs, but rarely more than a small bunch, inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled side of Hamid Karzai International Airport.," with the report adding that the group was made up of volunteers.

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Mexican president stuck in car by protest for more than two hours

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, President of Mexico, in his vehicle as several dozen of demonstrators from the teachers' union CNTE are surrounding the SUV in front of the main barracks of the armed forces in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. Daniel Diaz/dpa

Demonstrating teachers did not let Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador get out of his car for more than two hours - so he had to use his mobile phone to get to a press conference.

Several dozen demonstrators from the teachers' union CNTE surrounded the SUV of the head of state and government in front of the main barracks of the armed forces in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutierrez early on Friday morning.

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